According to Fitzgerald’s website, her creative process includes thinning oil paint until it turns into a fluid form, then building up layers and producing a luminous, subtle, rich surface. The paint is added on top of a gilded surface. The use of gilded ground might reminds of how Renaissance artists used gold leaf to signify spiritual aspects.

“I intend that the precious metals indicate something beyond our physical world, something metaphysical,” she explained on her website. The gilded basis, whether copper, silver, 23k, 21k, or 12k gold provides a distinct glow to her work, and adds to its other-worldliness. “It evokes a universal space including our physical plane,” adds Fitzgerald.

Born and raised on a dairy farm in the center of Wisconsin, Fitzgerald is instinctively drawn to the natural world, in all its variety and richness. “From the time I was little, I have had the privilege of working in gardens,” she writes. “I am connected to the earth when I share the conversation of growth with plants.”

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A Renaissance woman through and through, Meir has earned a Bachelor of Arts in Biology from Brown University, a Master of Science in Space Studies from the International Space University, and a Doctorate in Marine Biology from Scripps Institution of Oceanography (UCSD). 

Currently working onboard the International Space Station on her first spaceflight as part of Expedition 61 and 62, she’s due to return to Earth in the spring of 2020. But until she lands, she makes sure to spend her time meaningfully.

Amongst her many achievements, was a spacewalk that lasted for seven hours and 17 minutes, alongside her colleague Christina Koch. This was also the first all-female spacewalk in history. Meir has also participated in research flights on NASA’s reduced gravity aircraft and served as an aquanaut in an underwater habitat for NASA Extreme Environment Mission Operations (NEEMO).

“For me, coming up here, it just was the most amazing experience of my life, coming to the International Space Station, something that I had dreamed about since I was a kid,” she gushed in an interview with wbur. “And let me tell you, I thought it would be amazing. I knew it would be amazing. It is even far, far, far more incredible and impressive than I ever imagined. And that’s saying a lot.”

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According to Fitzgerald’s website, her creative process includes thinning oil paint until it turns into a fluid form, then building up layers and producing a luminous, subtle, rich surface. The paint is added on top of a gilded surface. The use of gilded ground might reminds of how Renaissance artists used gold leaf to signify spiritual aspects.

“I intend that the precious metals indicate something beyond our physical world, something metaphysical,” she explained on her website. The gilded basis, whether copper, silver, 23k, 21k, or 12k gold provides a distinct glow to her work, and adds to its other-worldliness. “It evokes a universal space including our physical plane,” adds Fitzgerald.

Born and raised on a dairy farm in the center of Wisconsin, Fitzgerald is instinctively drawn to the natural world, in all its variety and richness. “From the time I was little, I have had the privilege of working in gardens,” she writes. “I am connected to the earth when I share the conversation of growth with plants.”

Follow her creative journey through Instagram.

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A Renaissance woman through and through, Meir has earned a Bachelor of Arts in Biology from Brown University, a Master of Science in Space Studies from the International Space University, and a Doctorate in Marine Biology from Scripps Institution of Oceanography (UCSD). 

Currently working onboard the International Space Station on her first spaceflight as part of Expedition 61 and 62, she’s due to return to Earth in the spring of 2020. But until she lands, she makes sure to spend her time meaningfully.

Amongst her many achievements, was a spacewalk that lasted for seven hours and 17 minutes, alongside her colleague Christina Koch. This was also the first all-female spacewalk in history. Meir has also participated in research flights on NASA’s reduced gravity aircraft and served as an aquanaut in an underwater habitat for NASA Extreme Environment Mission Operations (NEEMO).

“For me, coming up here, it just was the most amazing experience of my life, coming to the International Space Station, something that I had dreamed about since I was a kid,” she gushed in an interview with wbur. “And let me tell you, I thought it would be amazing. I knew it would be amazing. It is even far, far, far more incredible and impressive than I ever imagined. And that’s saying a lot.”

Jealous yet?

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